Re: [avrdude-dev] Building avrdude doc/

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Erik Christiansen wrote:

> G'day Ted, et al,
>
>    Despite apt-getting first texi2dvi, then the whole 42 MB of texinfo
>    binary package, my build of avrdude downloaded from savannah today
>    still blows up in doc/. (See Background: below)
>
>    (Tried ./configure --help , without much luck, then peeked in the
>    Makefile.)
>
>    Is there a target that could safely be used to build just the source,
>    then go to doc/ and make html, since that builds OK? (And I'd settle
>    for manpages, any day. :)
>

There's two routes we could take here:

  - Add a configure option to disable building and installing of the
    texinfo docs.

  - Don't build or install the texinfo docs by default but having
    rules so that 'make docs && make docs-install' will build and
    install the texinfo docs.

Unfortunately, I don't have time to hack on this right now. :-(

>    If that is possible, I could thankfully uninstall texinfo.

Unless you limited diskspace, why can't you just leave it on the
computer?

>
> Background:
>    On debian woody, doing:
>
>    export PREFIX=/usr/local/avr
>    export PATH=$PATH:$PREFIX/bin
>    ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
>    ...                           # Bad builds, due to no texinfo tools.
>                                  # (Wot configure woz just as happy with
>                                  # as I am. ;-)
>    make distclean
>    ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
>    make
>
>    gives a serious gripe while "Making all in doc":
>
> >>>
>    dvips -o avrdude.ps avrdude.dvi
>    This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software
>    (www.radicaleye.com)
>    ' TeX output 2003.07.11:1717' -> avrdude.ps
>    <texc.pro>. [1] [2] [-1] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
>    [11] [12]
>    [13] [14] [15] [16]
>    TEXINPUTS=".:$TEXINPUTS" \
>    MAKEINFO='/bin/sh /usr/local/src/avrdude-4.1.0/missing --run makeinfo
>    -I .' \
>    texi2dvi --pdf --batch `test -f 'avrdude.texi' || echo
>    './'`avrdude.texi
>    This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw (Web2C
>    7.3.7)
>    I can't find the format file `pdftex.fmt'!

This looks like you need to install the tex/tetex-extra debian
package.

Here's the complete list of tex packages I have on my system:

address@hidden:~$ dpkg -l '*[tT]e[xX]*' | grep -v '<none>'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  doc-linux-text 2002.12-1      Linux HOWTOs, mini-HOWTOs, and FAQs in ASCII
ii  docbook2texi   0.5.1-6        Perl SGMLS spec file to convert DocBook SGML
ii  gettext        0.10.40-8      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  gettext-base   0.10.40-8      GNU Internationalization utilities for the b
ii  gettext-el     0.10.40-8      Emacs po-mode for editing .po files.
ii  html2text      1.3.0.2-1      An advanced HTML to text converter.
ii  hyperlatex     2.5-4          Creating HTML using LaTeX documents.
ii  jadetex        3.12-2         LaTeX macros for SGML to DVI/PS/PDF conversi
ii  latex2html     2000-beta1-7   LaTeX to HTML translator.
ii  libtext-format 0.52-16        Perl module for formatting (text) paragraphs
ii  libtext-iconv- 1.2-1          Convert between character sets in Perl
ii  task-tex       0.2            TeX/LaTeX environment
ii  tetex-base     1.0.2+20011202 basic teTeX library files
ii  tetex-bin      1.0.7+20011202 teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-doc      1.0.2+20011202 teTeX documentation
ii  tetex-extra    1.0.2+20011202 extra teTeX library files
ii  texi2html      1.64-cvs200104 Convert Texinfo files to HTML
ii  texinfo        4.2-1          Documentation system for on-line information
ii  textutils      4.5.2-1        The GNU text file processing utilities
ii  untex          9210-9         Remove LaTeX commands from input.


Ted Roth